Just a nice period picture
- mab01uk
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 8255
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:08 pm
- Location: S.E. England
- Has thanked: 91 times
- Been thanked: 67 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
A modern 'Period' picture...
Ian Curley battling with Grant Williams’ Jag for the lead at Brands Hatch recently.
-
- 998 Cooper
- Posts: 703
- Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:43 pm
- Location: Hertfordshire
- Has thanked: 19 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
"It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up."SMOKE GREY wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:17 pm It’s an early smoke grey Morris 997 road test/PR car. It is wearing Austin badges and also had a right hand tank. It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up.
Flippen heck!
- mab01uk
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 8255
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:08 pm
- Location: S.E. England
- Has thanked: 91 times
- Been thanked: 67 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Couple more photos...the reg is an Oxford series used between Jul ‘61 and Mar ‘62.richardACS wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 10:42 pm"It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up."SMOKE GREY wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:17 pm It’s an early smoke grey Morris 997 road test/PR car. It is wearing Austin badges and also had a right hand tank. It did 24 hours at Monthelry in France four up.
Flippen heck!
Front L to R: Gill Jones (Chief Experimental Officer and head of safety development), Benny James (Vehicle Proving),
The two men at the rear are Alan (The Pipe) Garrard and Pat Layton.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10 ... cale=en_GB
-
- 998 Cooper
- Posts: 703
- Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2018 2:43 pm
- Location: Hertfordshire
- Has thanked: 19 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
What a lovely peice of history - if this was today I doubt Benny James would be wearing a tie and a little suprised the other 3 are not... would they have allowed Pat Leyton to have smoked a cigarette during the attempt?
Look how high the seat belt is mounted, which they don't seem to be wearing - but I think back in the day seat belts were not a preferred option as they felt to be thrown clear might be the better option...
Look how high the seat belt is mounted, which they don't seem to be wearing - but I think back in the day seat belts were not a preferred option as they felt to be thrown clear might be the better option...
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Bristol in the '60s...
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- mab01uk
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 8255
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:08 pm
- Location: S.E. England
- Has thanked: 91 times
- Been thanked: 67 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Early Mini on family holiday in France in the 1960's. (Reg: WKY 75)
(from an old cine film recently shown on the Talking Pictures TV channel series "The Footage Detectives").
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Taken sixty years ago today - at Bridego Bridge, north of Cheddington on the West Coast mainline, a few after after the Glasgow to Euston mail train was robbed, the Mini belonged to one of the police officers sent out to the scene...
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Northampton St.John's station, July 1965...
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Hinksey Yard, just south of Oxford, 1959 / 60...
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- monkeyjim
- 850 Super
- Posts: 127
- Joined: Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:19 pm
- Location: East Sussex
Re: Just a nice period picture
Would be great to know more about this one .No info on the photo. One of our forum members has a Fiesta Yellow Morris with 88 on the end of the registration , the first owner was from Kendal.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
- Costafortune
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 2022
- Joined: Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:26 am
- Location: Sheffield On Thames
- Has thanked: 10 times
- Been thanked: 21 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Chances are, that is EPR165D - a factory black Mini Minor supplied by S&A. For some reason it was given a Dorset registration. Or more likely it had a private registration and ended up with a Dorset one when it was removed.
- WMU 211G
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1871
- Joined: Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:03 pm
- Location: Warwickshire
- Has thanked: 5 times
- Been thanked: 5 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Interesting, thanksCostafortune wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:55 pmChances are, that is EPR165D - a factory black Mini Minor supplied by S&A. For some reason it was given a Dorset registration. Or more likely it had a private registration and ended up with a Dorset one when it was removed.
Nidge
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper
1968 Mk2 Morris Cooper S
1992 Maserati Biturbo 430 2.8 litre V6
2014 Fiat Abarth 595 Anniversario
- Costafortune
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 2022
- Joined: Thu Feb 16, 2017 9:26 am
- Location: Sheffield On Thames
- Has thanked: 10 times
- Been thanked: 21 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Not bad for an early Mini 1000.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
- r.tec
- 998 Cooper
- Posts: 329
- Joined: Sat Feb 24, 2018 6:50 pm
- Location: Bad Muenstereifel (D), 30km to The Ring, 80km to Francorchamps
- Has thanked: 7 times
- Been thanked: 3 times
- Contact:
Re: Just a nice period picture
1987 Austin Rover Dealer in Bonn
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
- goff
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 1567
- Joined: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:19 pm
- Location: God's own country ,Maltby , South Yorks
Re: Just a nice period picture
MG 1100 and a mini traveller , Doncaster B reg
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
- UHR850
- 1275 Cooper S
- Posts: 6210
- Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:26 pm
- Location: Huizen the Netherlands
- Been thanked: 2 times
Re: Just a nice period picture
Yes in Germany it was called Mini Masters, in the rest of the selling countries it was called Advantage. This because of the Germans couldn't pronounce Advantage .
DOWNTON Mini is what I like a lot.
Collecting 60th wooden steeringwheels.
Collecting 60th wooden steeringwheels.